Andrew Weldon

'''Andrew Weldon''' is an Australian cartoonist and illustrator based in Melbourne. ==Career== Andrew Weldon is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Andrew Weldon |url=https://moadoph.gov.au/explore/behind-the-lines/cartoonists/andrew-weldon |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House}}</ref> He has been a cartoonist for ''The Big Issue'' since 2006.<ref name=":0" /> His cartoons have also appeared in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Age'', ''The Australian'', ''Tango'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Spectator'', and ''Private Eye''.<ref name=":0" />

He has written and illustrated children's books including ''The Kid With The Amazing Head'' (Penguin 1998) and Clever Trevor's ''Stupendous Inventions'' (Penguin 1999). Collections of his gag cartoons, ''I'm So Sorry Little Man, I Thought You Were A Hand-Puppet'' and ''If You Weren't a Hedgehog...If I Weren't a Hemophiliac'' were published by Allen & Unwin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Weldon |url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/andrew-weldon |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=The Wheeler Centre |language=en}}</ref> He also illustrated the ''Don't Look Now'' series, written by Paul Jennings''.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whelan |first=Susan |date=5 October 2013 |title=12 Curly Questions with illustrator Andrew Weldon |url=http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2013/10/12-curly-questions-with-illustrator.html |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Kids' Book Review}}</ref>

==Selected publications==

=== Author and illustrator === * ''I'm So Sorry Little Man, I Thought You Were A Hand-Puppet.'' Allen & Unwin, 2002. {{ISBN|978-1865087825}}. * ''Really-It's Not You, It's Me: Cartoons About Love, Sex and Relationships''. Riverhead Trade, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1594481970}}. * ''If You Weren't a Hedgehog...If I Weren't a Hemophiliac: 232 Cartoons.'' Allen & Unwin, 2009. {{ISBN|9780740790393}}. * ''The Kid with the Amazing Head''. Puffin, 2016. {{ISBN|9780143309161}}. * ''Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions.'' Puffin, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0143309154}}.

=== Illustrator === * Jordan, Mary Ellen. ''Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie: Bedtime on the Farm''. Albert Whitman & Company, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0807544006}}. * Jennings, Paul. ''Don't Look Now Book 1: Falling For It and The Kangapoo Key Ring''. Allen & Unwin, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1743311233}}. * Jennings, Paul. ''Don't Look Now Book 2: A Magician Never Tells and Elephant Bones.'' Allen & Unwin, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1743311400}}. * Jennings, Paul. ''Don't Look Now Book 3: Hair Cut and Just a Nibble''. Allen & Unwin, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1743311417}}. * Jennings, Paul. ''Don't Look Now Book 4: Hobby Farm and Seeing Red.'' Allen & Unwin, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1743311424}}.

* Cece, Adam. ''The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls''. Text Publishing, 2018. {{ISBN|9781925603484}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harper |first=Holly |date=April 2018 |title=The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls (Adam Cece, illus by Andrew Weldon, Text) |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/02/28/102745/the-extremely-weird-thing-that-happened-in-huggabie-falls-adam-cece-illus-by-andrew-weldon-text/ |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref> * Greenslade, Tosh. ''The Scomo Diaries: My First Eighteen Months at the Coalface''. Penguin, 2020. {{ISBN|9781760899080}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mayer |first=Erich |date=2021-01-30 |title=Book Review: The Scomo Diaries by Tosh Greenslade and Andrew Weldon |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-the-scomo-diaries-by-tosh-greenslade-and-andrew-weldon-261823-2369831/ |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Arts Hub |language=en-AU}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://andrewweldon.com/ Andrew Weldon's personal website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100203152622/http://www.abc.net.au/rollercoaster/therap/interviews/s1448911.htm Interview with ABC Kids] *[https://www.darkmatterzine.com/tosh-greenslade-and-andrew-weldon-scomo-diaries/ Tosh Greenslade and Andrew Weldon on The Scomo Diaries] (''Dark Matter Zine'')

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